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"The hurt, anger and pain doesn’t go away, but I know I have good people around me and better days will follow."

Zoe was born on December 21, 2005 with aortic stenosis, a congenital heart disease and at three months old she sadly developed cardiomyopathy.

Zoe Chambers was just two when she died

At just 13 months old she had a cardiac arrest and went into organ failure. Hooked up to a mechanical heart, Zoe was fast-tracked to the top of the European transplant list and was given just hours left to live.

Photographs of her tiny body were featured in local and national newspapers and on television stations around the country as the search for a heart for Zoe was launched.

And, after waiting 100 days, at the tender age of 18 months old she received her new heart in June 2007.

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Little Zoe recovered amazingly well after fighting for life for those 18 months.

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Julie says people often ask her if it was worth putting Zoe through the operation, for just one extra year.

She said: "We didn't know that she was going to get a year but for us it really was worth it. As long as they're not suffering, what parent wouldn't want extra time with their child?

"She was still on medication but we had lots of plans and it was nice to see her eating food and not attached to machinery.

Julie Chambers with her sons Jamie, and Dylan (Image: Peter Harbour)

"Four months before she died, the tube was taken out of her nose and we were able to take her places without the machinery. It was a fantastic, brilliant year and to see your child healthy was priceless."

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Julie imagines if Zoe were alive today she would be strong and fiesty.

She said: "I can’t help but wonder what she would have been like. I think she would be a strong and feisty, proper little character. Her cardiologist in Newcastle said she would fight them every treatment but afterwards give you the biggest smile.

"She was amazing, I like to think she would of been a happy go lucky little character."

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